I know, right. I am in the same boat, I bought some good quality generic toner cartridges for my B&W Brother Laser Printer and I still have one in the closet after 4 years of moderate printing. I finally threw in the towel and got a color laser, tired of having to buy inkjet cartridges every time we need to print in color because one, or more of them dried up. I have nothing but great things to say about my Brother printers. HP used to be good 10 years ago, not anymore, and avoid the Dell printers at all cost.